04/16/07: Killa Kev's WWE RAW Recap

Tonight Killa Kev is recappoing WWE RAW for Nikes the Sneaka Pimp, still out on duty for our nation. Tonight's show is on tape delay from Datchforum in Milan, Italy -- RAW's first-ever taping in Italy tonight. Tonight Johnathan Coachman has ordered John Cena to defend the WWE Championship against Rady Orton & Edge in a handicap match. A Diva Fashion Show has been scheduled, and we may have more to com ein the growing feud between WWE Women's Champion Melina and former champion Mickie James.

We open the show with Johnathan Coachman coming out to greet the fans, and he gets nothing but boos. Coach announced that last week his main event match for Backlash was Cena defending the title in a 2-on-1 handicap match against Rated RKO, but he got overrulled by last week's honorary general manager, Michael Pena, who made it a 4-way including HBK. Coachman said that he didn't get his way last week, but he'll get it tonight, because that 2-on-1 handicap match WILL be the main event tonight. Coachman then introduces Vincent Kennedy McMahon.

Vince's music hits, he does that goofy looking strut down to the ring and steps in. Vince thanks the fans, he says he had a better reception in Paris, France and everywhere else than what he has gotten in Milan. He says Milan is supposed to be the fashion capital of the world. He apparently doubts it, as he turns the cameras on the fans and doubts that any of them know anything about fashion. He also says, for the record, garlic is not an aphrodesiac. And with that non sequitor, he introduces Umaga.

WWE Intercontinental Champion Umaga comes down to the ring, with manager Armando Alejandro Estrada behind him, displaying the title. They get into the ring, and Vince wants to remind the fans in Italy what Umaga did to Bobby Lashley last week. We go to the Titantron and play a video montage of what happened on RAW last week, the same one that played on ECW. The end result that Bobby Lashley will defend the ECW Championship against Umaga, Vince McMahon & Shane McMahon in a 3-on-1 handicap match. Back to RAW, Vince says that the three of them will destroy Lashley at Backlash. Vince then says that he regrets to inform the fans that Shane is not appearing, apparently having some fear of lack of deodorant. Vince also says that Bobby Lashley also didn't make it, apparently something happened with immigration and he was sent back to the United States. Vince then offers an open challenge for anybody in the RAW locker room who wants to face Umaga tonight. The camera turns to the entrance, nobody comes out. Vince says to the fans that he will sweeten the deal by putting the Intercontinental Championship on the line. Still no response. Vince says he won't compete against Umaga himself, so the only thing they have left is the fans. Vince challenges anybody from the crowd to step up. Umaga gets to the ropes and hurls insults at them. Vince says that they're all brave from a distance, especially when drinking, but is still looking for a challenger. Vince goes around pointing at fans, and eventually picks a plant at ringside to get over the rail and get in the ring.

This fan gets in the ring, steps up, Vince tells him to hold on, he knows he's intimidated, but wants to know if first he can speak English. The guy says, "Ci, Ci!". The fans start up a soccer chant. Vince yells at them and tells them to shut up. Vince asks the guy where he's from, I didn't catch where though. Vince says that before they get started, the guy has to agree that if Umaga destroys him, the guy can't sue anybody. The guy says he agrees, the fans cheer. He asks the guy his name, he says his name is Santino Marella. The fans stand up and clap for Marella. Vince takes a moment to point out Marella's bright-red sneakers and make fun of his shirt. Vince says he wants a referee for this match. The referee comes down, Marella strips off his shirt, and this guy is built! Vince tells the fans that he warned them, and this will be on them when Santino is destroyed.

WWE Intercontinental Championship: champion Umaga vs. Santino Marella

Marella attacks at the bell with some rights, but Umaga puts him in the corner, Marella reverses and puts in some kicks to the knees, Umaga shoves him in the corner, splash, he misses! Santino with a schoolboy, two count! Marella is lined up to fight, Umaga backs up to a corner. Vince McMahon suddenly interrupts and halts the match. Vince backs Mrella up to a corner, and says that there is a misunderstanding. Vince says that this will be a "No Holds Barred" match, anything goes. He calls Estrada into the ring, calls over Marella and the ref, and explains it is no DQ, anything goes. Estrada then slaps Marella, Marella slaps him back, and then Umaga attacks with a clothesline, and then a second clothesline, followed by a bodyslam. Umaga off the ropes hits a legdrop. Estrada rolls marella over and slaps him. Umaga lines up in a corner and hits a diving headbutt to Mrella's midsection. Estrada gets out of the ring, Umaga drags Marella over to a corner by the leg, climbs up to the middle turnbuckle and hits a splash. He picks up Marella, bodyslam, Umaga climbs out of the ring slowly, goes to the top turnbuckle.

The fans cheer as Bobby Lashley comes out of nowhere, wearing a suit, and throws Umaga off the top. Lashley lays in some big rights, strips off his shirt, more rights, and a big clothesline of fthe ropes. Estrada gets up on the apron, Lashley lays him out. McMahon gets in the ring with a chair, swing, Lashley grabs it and yanks it away, McMahon leaves. Lashley turns around and then nails Umaga with a chairshot three times, then hits a spear. Lashley then picks up the Marella and puts Marella on top for the pin.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOUR NEW WWE INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION, SANTINO MARELLA! Lashley puts the title around him and they celebrate as we go to break.

We come back from commercial and recap the match. We're back in the ring with Lawler on the mic. Lawler asks how Lashley was here. Lashley says he wasn't supposed to be here, but he is. And he wasn't supposed to keep his title at Backlash, but he will. But tonight it's all about Santino Marella. Lawler puts the mic over to Marella, who thanks Lashley and thanks the fans (in Italian). Marella and Lashley then pose in the ring as RAW's theme music plays.

We go backstage with Carlito and Ric Flair. Flair asks Carlito if he's ready for their match. Carlito says he's ready, but he's not sure after letting Flair down last week. Flair says don't worry about it, that was last week, this is a new week and they get to prove themselves again tonight. Back to commercial again. Back from commercial, we get a promo for next Monday's RAW in London, England.

Flair, Carlito & Torrie make their way down to the ring first, all getting in the ring. WGTT makes their entrance next, much shorter, straight to the ring and ready for business. Benjamin & Carlito square off first, Carlito with a side headlock, shove off, shouldertackle, floatover, and a pair of short hiplock takeovers on Benjamin, one for Haas as he comes in, a pair of bodyslams for both. Benjamin tries to splash Carlito near the corner, Carlito ducks it, Benjamin eats the buckle, Carlito with a dropkick on Benjamin, then on Haas as they go out of the ring.

Haas tags in, Flair tags in. haas puts Flair in the corner, Flair chops his way out, whip off the ropes, back elbow smash. Flair with a chop block from behind as Haas gets up. Flair sets up for the Figure Four leglock, benjamin interferes, ref chases him out. Haas takes advantage, drags Flair over to his corner by the leg, tags to Benjamin. Benjamin whips him off the ropes and executes a back body drop, goes for the cover, two-count. Benjamin wraps Flair up from behind, tags to Haas, Haas with a kick to the gut, then a kick to Flair's back, another kick to keep him down, then lays in some rights and some knees. Haas off the ropes with a kneedrop, covers, two-count. Haas drives Flair into his corner, tags to Benjamin, who lays in kicks and punches. Tag back out to Haas, kicks again, Flair chops his way out, Haas takes him down with a punch.

Flair is back up though and hits a back suplex on Haas, rolls over and makes the hot tag to Carlito, Haas makes it over and tags Benjamin in. Carlito unloads on Benjamin with left after left. Whips Benjamin off the ropes, clothesline, running knee lift, clothesline on Haas, one on Benjamin, whip off the ropes, Benjamin reverses, Carlito with the springboard reverse elbow off the ropes, covers, Haas interfers. Flair throws Haas out, but the ref comes over and shoves Flair back to the outside Carlito off the ropes, Haas trips up Carlito from the outside, which lets Benjamin put the T-Bone Suplex on Carlito. Benjamin covers and gets the win.

Carlito is FURIOUS and throws a fit in the ring as WGTT celebrate in the ring. Carlito rolls out, Flair comes up and tries to console him, but Carlito shoves him off, then points in Flairs face as if it was Flair's fault. Carlito then walks up the ramp as we fade to commercial.

Back from the commercial, we recap the visit from Michael Pena, a child with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which concluded with Mr. Pena announcing the main event for WWE Backlash, John Cena defending the WWE Championship against Shawn Michaels, Edge & Randy Orton. We then go backstage to Maria, whose guest is John Cena. Cena comes up, and Maria gets all doe-eyed to him. She finally gets around to asking him on his opinion about the match. Cena starts to talk, and HBK comes up. He tells Cena that before WrestleMania he always had Cena's back. He wants to make it clear now he doesn't care what happens to him. He says that next week when they have their WrestleMania 23 rematch, he's going to leave Cena on his back, and there's nothing he can do about it. HBK then walks off, Cena stares him down as the fans chant for HBK. We go back to ringside with JR & Lawler, who thank thier Sky Italia broadcast partners, and then cut over to the Italian broadcast team as they introduce themselves. We then segue into another promo for "The Condemned". We come back from the promo, Melina is posing in the mirror, Johnny Nitro comes up and tells her she looks good. Melina says that Nitro is also looking good, and she knows that he's going to win is match against Eugene tonight. Eugene then runs up to both of them, slaps them on the back, and runs off. Commercial. We come back with a short promo for The Great Khali.

Johnny Nitro vs. Eugene Dinsmore

Nitro makes his ring entrance first, without Melina. Eugene's most generic music in the world hits, and Eugene makes his entrance next. Nitro attacks him as soon as he gets in the ring, laying in punches and kicks. Eugene with a few elbows to the gut, Nitro cuts him off with a knee and beats him down into the corner, then kicks until the referee breaks. Eugene staggers up, plants some lefts and rights, Nitro with a side kick. Eugene is whipped into the corner, Eugene reverses, Nitro elbows him in the mouth, then hits a knee driver into Eugene's head from the middle turnbuckle. Nitro sets up for a hangman's neckbreaker, hits it, hooks the leg and gets the win. Nitro doesn't waste time and just leaves the ring.

Diva's Fasion Show

Back from break, we start the introduction for the Diva Fashion Show. I didn't catch the Italian ring announcer's name, I just found it funny that he starts talking and they throw up a graphic for "SAP", indicating that the broadcast is available in Spanish. Candice Michelle is introduced first, dressed as an angel, including wings. Victoria comes down next in a nice white dress, but apparently has problems with her shoes, she kicks them off and then marches down to the ring. Mickie James is next, she's dressed in rather chic jeans and a white blouse. Maria is introduced next, wearing a micro mini skirt an a baby tee. Torrie Wilson comes out next wearing a black blouse that is barely buttoned and a black pair of shorts. Torrie poses at the bottom of the rap. Melina comes out next wearing a HOT red dress and has probably her nicest hairdo yet (at least it isn't that ugly mane they put on her a few weeks ago for the photos on WWE.com!). Melina does her split-ring leg intrance and the fans cheer appreciatively.

The Itialian ringin announcer explains the instructions in Italian, but we know what happens, he's going to show off the girls one-by-one and judge by the crowd reaction. Candice goes first, she poses, and Victoria makes faces and yawns. Victoria is introduced next, she gets bood, she act like she doesn't even care. Mickie James is introduced next, she gets the best reaction sofar. Until Maria, the fans EXPODE for her before her name is even introduced! She struts out and shows off her legs. Torrie Wilson gets an even BIGGER pre-introduction applause. Finally Melina is introduced, and the fans boo her just about as bad as Victoria. Torrie Wilson is declared the winner. Maria hugs her as Torrie goes out and celebrates. Torrie hugs Mickie James next, but Melina attacks Torrie from behind. Mickie James pulls Melina off by her hair and throws her out of the ring. Victoria bails as well to check on Melina and leave with her, the rest of the diva's are in the ring celebrating and posing for the crowd. Camera goes back up to Melina and Victoria, who look on scornfully.

Matt & Jeff Hardy come out first, hit the ring and take their time making poses. Cade & Murdoch are next. Bell rings, and we got a tie-up, Cade pushes Hardy back into the corner, referee has to break it up. Referee warns Cade loudly and physically. The fans start chanting "HAR-DY!" HAR-DY!". Cade comes in and kicks Jeff in the gut, then clubs him a few times in the back. Cade picks up Hardy for a bodyslam, then yells at him to get up. Matt Hardy is at ringside cheering Jeff on. Cade picks up Hardy and headbutts him in the corner, whips him out and charges. Hardy floats over, ducks a clothesline, hits the Whisper In The Wind off the middle turnbuckle. Hardy hits a 360 legdrop, goes for a cover and gets a two-count. Hardy goes up to the top turnbuckle, Cade rolls out of the ring and Hardy steps down, chases him down and throws him back in the ring. Cade cuts Hardy off with a pair of knees to the sternum, whips him into the ropes, then throws him out of the ring. Trevor Murdoch tries to attack Hardy from behind, but the referee catches it. He then turns around and catches Cade trying to do the same thing after Hardy gets bac in the ring. Cadew hps Hardy off the ropes, Jeff ducks it and then hits a baseball slide on Trevor Murdoch through the ropes, then pokes Cade in the eys. Hardy thres to shove Cade off the topes, Cade holds on, Hardy comes up behind him, Cade shvoes him off then hits a boot to the face. Cade stomps Hardy down until the ref breaks it, Trevor Murdoch with a cheapshot, Matt Hardy chases him off.

Jeff Hardy crawls into a corner, Cade attacks him until the ref breaks again. Hardy staggers up, but he calls for Cade to come over. Cade nails a hard right, covrs, gets a two-count. Cade picks up Hardy by the head, hits a bodyslam, goes off the ropes for a big elbow drop and misses. Jeff Hardy with a reverse mule kicks, headbutts Cade in the corner, kicks, whips him out, charges and Cade with a reverse elbow smash to counter. Both men resting for a moment, Cade gets back up, picks up Hardy, snap mare, hook of the leg, cover and a two-count. Cade argues with the official as Hardy struggles back up the ropes. Cade grabs Hardy by the hair, whips him off the ropes, ducks down, Hardy kicks him in the face, hits a jawbreaker, a pair of rights, Hardy off the ropes with a running forearm smash, a pair of clothslines. Whips Cade off the ropes, reversal by Cade, reversal by Hardy into a takedown. Hardy going up to the top turnbuckle, Murdoch gets on the apron to distract the ref, Matt Hardy takes him off the apron and clotheslines him. Jeff goes for thw Swanton Bomb, but Cade puts the knees up to block it, Hardy hurts his back! Cade hits a short-arm clothesline on Jeff Hardy, covers and gets the win!

Cade rolls out and celebrates with Trevor Murdoch. Matt Hardy gets in the ring and checks on Jeff. We recap the end of the match. We go to comercial break with another promo for "The Condemned". We come back from break with the promo for WWE Backlash, featuring the 4-way match for the WWE Championship, and Undertaker vs. Batista in a Last Man Standing match for the WWE World Heavyweight Title.

"The Masterpiece" Chris Masters vs. Super Crazy

Back to RAW, Chris Masters is in the ring with a mic. He says that Italy is known for its great artists and artwork. But none of them have ever created a true masterpiece like Chris Masters. Super Crazy's music then hits, cutting him off. We get right to wrestling, the bell rings, we lock up, Chris Masters throws Crazy into the corner, comes out, Crazy tries with a drop toehold, but Masters cuts him off, throws him back in the corner, and hits a pair of knees to the chest before whipping him out to the other corner. Crazy leaps up on the turnbuckle, hits a dropkick, hits another one, and Masters goes out of the ring for a break. Super Crazy with a plancha through the ropes, taking down Masters, then runs around to celebrate. Crazy throws Masters back in the ring, climbs up to the top turnbuckle, goes for a moonsault, Masters rolls out and Crazy hits the mat. Masters rolls Crazy over, stomps him in the midsection several times, referee breaks it. Masters puts Super Crazy into a corner, lines him up for several reverse elbows, whips Super Crazy out to the opposite corner hard, Crazy falls down to the mat, Masters covers and gets a two-count. Crazy crawls to a corner, Masters follows, Crazy lays in some kicks to break it, then gets some right hand punches, bounces off the ropes. Masters tries for a clothesline, Crazy gose for a crucifix, but Masters holds on, falls back for a drop, covers and gets a two count. Masters pulls down the kneepad, nails Crazy in the back with a pair of knees, then goes into a reverse chinlock.

Crazy calls for the fan support as the fans start chanting for him loudly. Masters lays in a few more knees to the back before re-applying the chinlock. Crazy powers up, punches his way out, bounces off the ropes, charges and Masters ducks down for a quick backdrop. Masters picks up Crazy, snap mare, another knee to the spine of Super Crazy, then re-applies the reverse chinlock. Crazy again calls for the fans, the fans start clapping, Crazy works his way back up. Masters with a front facelock to try to keep him down, Crazy has a leg lock on, but then punches away, Masters with a club to the back, but Super Crazy starts punching at Masters' knees, then kicks at his knees. Super Crazy breaks the hold, then hits a low dropkick off the ropes, followed by a 360 backsplash, a standing moonsault, a cover for a two-count. Crazy with some punchees, bounces off the ropes, tries for the wheelbarrow, but Masters picks him pu by the waist, slams him, covers and gets the pin. Super Crazy rolls out of the ring as Chris Masters stands up and poses before the fans.

We go to commercial, come back and recap the opening segment of the night. We then go back to our Italian announcers, Michele Posa & Luca Francina, welcoming us back. We next recap the lineup for Backlash. We go backstage with Edge and Randy Orton talking. Edge says he knows Orton wants to get revenge for what happened last week. Orton says he wants by-gones to be by-gones and they have to work together tonight to take out John Cena. Edge starts to cover what happened at WrestleMania, Orton cuts him off and says forget about it, they have to reform. Edge says that they have to reform Rated RKO. They shake hands and leave. Commercial.

Edge & Orton get introduced together as Rated RKO, then John Cena rolls to the ring. No much posing done, they are gonna stick to the 11:00 cut-off. Cena strips off his shirt, the ref backs Edge & Orton off. The bell rings, Edge and Cena square off. They lock up, but Edge with a kick to the gut, a few rights, Cena goes to a corner. Edge whips him out, Cena reverses, boot out of the corner, fisherman suplex by Cena, pin attempt, tw-count. Cena with a front facelock into a side headlock takeover, cover, two-count. Front facelock by Cena again, armbar, roll-up, pin, two-count. Cena with the front facelock again, but Edge drives him into a corner. Edge wiht a right, whips Cena into a turnbuckle, tags to Orton, Orton punches and kicks him down to the mat, using the ropes for leverage. Orton picks up Cena, Cena drives him into the corner with several shoulderblocks, whips Orton out to a corner, catches him out of the corner with a bulldog, pin attempt, two-count. Cena with a right, Orton scrambles to a corner, Cena with a punch, whips Orton off the ropes, ducks down, Orton kicks him in the face and stomps on his head several times. Orton with a hard shot to the back of the head, then poses for the crowd. Orton picks up Cena from behind, clubs him in the chest several times, European uppercut to take Cena down. Orton picks up Cena, Cena fires with a trio of rights, whips Orton off the ropes, reverse by Orton, reverse by Cena, blind tag by Edge as Orton comes off the ropes. Orton floats over, Cena gets up and takes a boot from Orton right to the face, Edge with a elbow drop, covers for a pin attempt as we go to commercial.

Back from break, Edge lays out Cena with a right, Cena falls to the outside apron. Edge bounces off the ropes and hits a bodyblock on Cena, sending him sailing into the announcers table. Edge tags to Orton, Orton out and picks up Cena, drops him face-first on the Italian announcer's table. Orton rolls in the ring to break the ref's count, rolls back out to throw Cena back in, Orton rolls back in and lays in right hands. Orton tags to Edge, sets him up and Edge kicks him in the chest as Orton goes out. Edge with a right, Cena with a trio of right hands, off the ropes, Edge takes him out with a big boot. Edge rolls him over and lays in more rights to the head, referee breaks it. Edge tags to Orton. Orton whips Cena off the ropes and hits a standing dropkick. Orton doesn't go for the pin, he goes in for more beatings to the head. Orton rolls him over, hits a giant kneedrop, tags back out to Edge.

Edge gets cocky. Cena picks up Edge into the F-U, but Edge rolls out and hits a back cracker on Cena. Edge picks Cena back up, forearm shots to Cena's head. Cena is staggering on the ropes, Edge kicks him in the head. Cena looks down for the count as Edge pulls him back up and applies a front facelock, setsup for a suplex, but sets him up on the top turnbuckle instead. Edge hits cena in the face, goes up for a superplex. Cena tries to fight back with rights, but Edge with a headbutt. Cena fires up with more rights, knocks Edge off. Cena goes to the top turnbuckle and hits a HUGE legdrop form the top. Randy Orton runs in and starts attacking Cena, the referee can't break it. Edge rolls out and gets a chair, referee goes ot stop him. Shawn Michaels comes down to ringside, Orton tries to bounce off the ropes, HBK pulls the ropes down to take him out. Cena fires up on Edge, hits his punches, hit s the belly-to-back suplex, waves his hand in Edge's face, YOU CAN'T SEE HIM! FIVE KNUCKLE SHUFFLE! Edge pops up but is staggering. John Cena sets up for the F-U, bu Randy Orton gets back in the ring, dropkicks Cena, knocks out the ref. Orton whips Cena into a corner, Cena bounces out and they bump heads. Everybody is down, but Shawn Michaels is outside the ring watching.

Edge staggers up, then collapses into a corner, then sets up for a spear. Cena gets up, Edge charges, Cena side steps it and Edge spears Michaels. HBK gets in the ring, lines up for a Superkick on Cena, Cena ducks it and Michaels takes out Edge with a superkick! Cena picks up HBK and hits the F-U, then covers Edge as the referee recovers, hooks the leg and gets the pin! Cena is given his title, we recap the last moments of the match. We go back to the ring as everybody but Cena is now laid out. Cena stands over HBK's body and raises his title belt as we fade out for the night.

We get another promo for next week's RAW main event, John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels for the WWE Championship again, the WrestleMania 23 rematch. See you tomorrow night for ECW on Sci-Fi!